Intel vs AMD systems on reliability/longevity

[Tbirdkid]

Ive nuked a few, but no chips have died on me. Motherboards, memory, and psus have all gone bad on me but no cpu without me trying to kill it...

 

[klocwerk]

Good advice! I have been using PC's since 1984 and have never experienced any CPU failures.

This (since 1993).
Don't buy bargain-bin power supplies. That and crappy capacitors are the most common causes of motherboard failure.

 

[Dragon965]

I used to build AMD systems up until socket 939 was phased out in favor of socket AM2. I then switched to Intel socket 775 systems for the next 4 years. My neice still has my older socket 462 Athlon 2.2GHz system and is using it to play games, chat, do homework. This system is 10 years old now.

The motherboard was an ASUS A7N8X-VM with onboard video. Probably the best motherboard I ever bought for longevity. I had a lot of MSI and ECS boards which died in 1-2 years.

On the Intel side of things, 3 boards, 1 ASUS running a 2.4GHz Dual Core Pentium at 3GHz for 3 years solid, and an ASROCK motherboard Running a 1.8GHz Core2Duo 4300 for 3 years at 2.4 Ghz. The ASROCK was an RMA replacement for the previous 4CoreDual-VSTA which ran only just under 1 year. These 2 systems are still currently in use at my house.

My newest motherboard is just a month old it is a GigaByte GA-MA785GM-US2H running a AMD Phenom II 965BE 3.4 GHz processor overclocked to 4GHz on a straight mutliplier overclock. I hope I get a lot of life out of it...

So it would seem that longevity-wise, the manufacturer of the Motherboard is far more important than who makes the processor. I even ran a Cyrix processor (remember those?) for a number of years on an ASUS motherboard. My best results so far have been on ASUS and GigaByte motherboards, and they will remain the 2 companies I will buy from for some time, regardless of processor brand...

 

[Lyfer]

cheap chinese capacitors

This is why I only use boards with high quality solid capacitors.



I have had 3 system failures in the last 5-7 years (all AMD) and most were because of a dead mobo (msi Nforce/Via mobo's to be exact).


Good quality motherboard + high quality PSU = stable system for years to come.

 

[JimKiler]

Even if AMD only lasted 5 years considering how cheap their parts are I am okay with that cause then I get immediate wife approval for a new build. But I do not believe they have a shorter lifespan.

I had a nvidia nForce 4 board that lasted 5 years but did die once the southbridge fan died and overheated the board.

 

[Arkaign]

I've run into very few CPU failures overall. Almost all that I saw were Socket A AMD chips, though I've seen a couple dead Northwoods and a handful of roasted earlier chips (Cyrix 6X86, Intel Pentium 90, 486DX4-100, etc).

 

[A554SS1N]

I built an AMD system in 2006, still using it today, but the orginal MSI motherboard only lasted about 6 months....

 

[fffblackmage]

I still have a couple old Athlon XPs. They still work probably, but I can't say for sure since the three socket A mobos I have all have issues. One doesn't POST. One has memory error issues. And the other is just weird - boots under Ubuntu but not XP, and reformatting didn't help.

 

[nyker96]

over the years, I got both intel (386/486/pentium/775) and amd (dx386,tbird,754,939,am2+), just one ECS (754) board died on me took the cpu along with it when it went. but most boards I keep under 2.5 years. I still have the Biostar 754 board/Sempy 64 around for backup but I don't use it any more.

now I keep buying gigabyte no matter amd/intel just for the peace of mind it gives with solid capacitors.

 

[slim]

This (since 1993).
Don't buy bargain-bin power supplies. That and crappy capacitors are the most common causes of motherboard failure.

Ditto. You can throw in DFI as a quality motherboard manufacturer. My 5 or 6 year old lanparty NF4 is still doing quite well as a home server with on overclocked x2 that has run 24x7 basically its entire life.

I would say memory sticks and power supplies are the things I've seen die the most (no motherboards or cpus for me including the first desktop ddr motherboard created, FIC ad11, with an overclocked Tbird).

 

[Eddie313]

I have two computers at work that run 24/7 for better part of 10 years no problems.

The move to solid capacitors was a good one. Intel/AMD Really both are very good CPU's.

I have probably built about couple thousand system's never once has a cpu failed.

Now motherboards/Power supplys/Ram/Hard drives/video cards thats a different story.